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SomeCallUsBalkans

Some Call Us Balkans (SCUB), cultural cooperation project co-funded by Creative Europe, is a transdisciplinary research and community aiming at mobilizing moments of collective production of knowledge and imagination in order to enable multivocal impressions of the “Balkans” beyond stereotypical narratives and representation of it.

SCUB implements art-based participatory research practices to deconstruct Myths and Misconceptions about the “Balkans”, building a common ground for cross-border cooperation, social transformation and co-creation.

Starting from the conducted researches in 6 different sites and communities in the “Balkans” along three main research streams: The Commons and Right to the City, Migration and Labour, Cultural Heritage and Cultural practice; and the Ground Tour open-scripted travelling practice, we envision new ecologies, modes of inhabiting the Balkans and come together on a common ground.

The final outcome of the project is the BLKN Mobile a particpatory artistic format and a travel itinerary across the region engaging with various sites, communities and a wide a wide spectrum of issues, including ecology, mobility, citizenship, environment, gender issues, minorities, memory, identity, belonging, the commons, urban space and borders....
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slare

To saunter, to be slovenly (The Dialect of Cumberland – Robert Ferguson, 1873). Rarely used in Cumbria now but has a meaning of to walk slowly, to amble, to walk with no particular purpose. Used for example in the ballad Billy Watson’s Lonnin written by Alexander Craig Gibson of Harrington, Cumbria in 1872 “Yan likes to trail ow’r t’ Sealand-fields an’ watch for t’ commin’ tide, Or slare whoar t’Green hes t’ Ropery an’ t’ Shore of ayder side “(Translation: One likes to trail over to Sealand Fields and watch for the coming tide, Or slare over to where the Green has the ropery and the Shore on the other side) Billy Watson’s Lonning (lonning – dialect for lane) still exists and can be found at Harrington, Cumbria.

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